Israeli soldiers abducted five citizens, including a young woman and Palestine TV correspondent, Ali Dar Ali, from various neighborhoods and towns in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, in the central part of the occupied West Bank, early Thursday morning.
Media sources said many army jeeps invaded Beitunia town, west of Ramallah, before the soldiers stormed and ransacked homes.
During the invasion, the soldiers abducted a young woman, Eman Ibrahim Al-Nibali, in addition to Zaid Abu Diya and Mo’tasem Mohammad Al-Zein.
The sources added that the soldiers also invaded Burham town, north of Ramallah, and abducted Palestine TV correspondent, former political prisoner, Ali Dar Ali, 41, after storming his home and ransacking it.
Additionally, the soldiers abducted Jidan Rateb Ajrab from the village of Qibya, west of Ramallah, after storming and violently searching his home.
Earlier on Thursday, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian child, Majed Fida’ Abu Zeina, 16, in the Al-Far’a refugee camp, south of Tubas, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
Earlier Thursday dawn, an Israeli drone fired a missile at a Palestinian car in Tubas, killing six young men and seriously wounding one.
The slain young men have been identified as Mohammad Zakariyya Zobeidi, 21, Ahmad Fawwaz Abu Dawwas, 24, Mohammad Awad Abu Jom’a, 30, Qussai Majdi Abdul-Razeq, 26, Mohamamd Nathmi Abu Gharra, 22, and Ahmad Fawwaz Fayez Abu Dawwas, 22.
Since last Wednesday, August 28, the Israeli army launched a wide-scale offensive on the West Bank, especially the northern parts, killing 40 citizens, including 21 from Jenin Governorate, 8 from Tulkarem, 8 from Tubas, and 3 from Hebron, raising the total number of slain Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7, 2023, to 700.
On Thursday, Day 335 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians across the devastated, starved, and besieged coastal enclave.
Israel has now killed at least 40,891 Palestinians and injured more than 94,398, mostly children and women, in addition to the thousands who remain under the rubble in various parts of the destroyed Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023.
